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Answer this ...what is the kingdom life we are called into?

We can't make a conclusion about the race while the race is in progress. A person can enter in and out of the kingdom realm in the Spirit. In fact we will all do just that. I'm speaking here of people who are actually entering in in the first place. Going in and out is how we learn to be as...

Gnosticism 101 :confused: I think Bono put it well when he sang..."I don't believe in the gun that just went off in my hand" It's 21st century schizoid man! (think King Crimson)

I don't see this at all in the text...sorry to say! :) The Jews see azazel (the scapegoat) as a kind of devil.....if not the devil himself. "Presented alive" means that people have not lost their lives for Christ...but have preserved them. Jesus said they who preserved their lives would lose...

I think it is undignified and ungodly of the Messianics to dub they who are born again and grafted into Israel...as mere scab labour...who will be put under others because of their DNA. Where is the faith in God? The spiritual birth is superior to the natural birth. Dispensationalists deny...

The works of the flesh? What of them? No one inherits the kingdom by the works of the flesh.

God has upped the ante, so to speak...He always gives us MORE than we ask of think! :) What was once a judgment on just this temporal world has taken on a new depth....so that we will now be judged according to a much higher standard who have received grace (or who have claimed to have received...

You are seeing Jesus here as a sort of magic genie that just allows God to forgive constant sinning. But you are leaving Jesus on the cross. He is risen! So we can walk with Him in newness of life. You are walking in your own power...hence you will always sin. The gospel is about a...

The flesh...of itself...is just weak. We have very limited faculties....being without spiritual faculties. When the flesh begins to assert itself...sin comes into being. But the meek shall inherit the earth.

This is the schizoid teaching of gnosticism. Very popular in the early days...since people could not understand grace...just like today. The flesh is not sinful in itself. It is the POWER of the flesh which is sinful. You are ignoring and obfuscating here. Jesus walked in OUR kind of flesh. He...

You are seeing through the wrong end of your telescope. You are denying the power of God....as Paul warned us of people who twist the meaning of Paul. The gospel fulfills the law BY grace. Jesus doesn't make us lawless. We overcome sin just as an airplane overcomes gravity. Do we abolish...

Hopefully we are getting around to the title of the OP...just sayin' :rolleyes:

Jesus put on this flesh, yet He was sinless. When we put on Christ we are equipped in the very same way as Jesus was in His time here. 1 John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought...

We can only perceive according to our experience. Otherwise faith is required.

Very true. Jesus and the Father are One. The mystery is that Jesus became a part of His own creation...thereby "elevating" both mankind (who are in the Beloved) but also the Father who is now "the MOST high God." The Father is 3 times holy as the Son has glorified the Father by creating an...

1 John 3:9 “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” This is written by the same man you have misquoted to mean we can sin IN Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels. Gnosticism backs up your kind of reasoning. It is a reasoning that denies the active power of God in one who has been accepted into the Beloved.

The irony here is that you are denying Romans 8...because you are stuck in Romans 7. We are to put to death the deeds of the flesh (sin) through the Spirit. THAT is what life in Christ is all about. That is what Romans 8 is all about. You are preaching a powerless gospel here, as so many do...

In your experience up till now....wadr! :)

People justify themselves for NOT sowing to the Spirit and not BECAUSE they did. A person who sows to the Spirit waits on God....not people. Our justification comes from above...not from ourselves who think our own faith or belief is sufficient for salvation. If our faith were sufficient for...